Coventry City Centre is benefitting from millions of pounds of investment that will help it bounce back after the pandemic.
Huge developments, new facilities and improvements to the layout of the centre will help generate jobs, attract further investment and provide new homes.
It's been over a year since I unveiled my ambitious Transport Plan, which depicted how our towns and cities will need to be linked in the coming decades, and we've already made huge progress.
A year ago, I stood in the halls of Aldridge Transport Museum, surrounded by historic vehicles of all shapes and sizes, to unveil my 2040 Transport Plan.
The Royal Town will be the first place to roll out 75 of the new cycles for hire, which will be run by the same operator as London’s famous ‘Boris Bikes’, Serco.
The West Midlands is undergoing a transport revolution. Old railway stations will be reopened. Ground-breaking Very Light Rail networks are being designed. Miles upon miles of Metro tram tracks are being laid to link up communities. Fleets of electric buses are taking to our streets.
As we plot our route out of the pandemic, transport will be vital if we are to get our local economies moving again. While trams, trains and HS2 make headlines as construction sites spring up along new routes, the bus network remains the workhorse of public transport in the UK.
